The known human history of the Grand Canyon area stretches back at least 10,500 years, when the first evidence of human presence in the area is found. Native Americans have inhabited the Grand Canyon
Foot of Toroweap Looking East by William H. Holmes (1882). Artwork such as this was used to popularize the Grand Canyon area.
Split-twig figurine from the Grand Canyon
Ancestral Pueblo food storage building ruins at Tusayan Pueblo
The 54-foot (16 m) paddle wheeler Explorer in the Lt. Joseph Ives expedition up the Colorado River. Period engraving.
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through what is now parts of the southwestern United Stat
History of the Grand Canyon area
…Cerbat, and the Navajo, only to be later forced onto reservations by the United States Government. In September 1540, under direction by conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to find the fabled Seven Cities of Gold, Captain García López de Cárdenas led a party of Spanish soldiers with Hopi guides to the Grand Canyon. More…
The Coronado Expedition (1540–1542) from Mexico north through the future U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
Coronado Sets Out to the North (Frederic Remington, c. 1900)
La conquista del Colorado, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, depicts Coronado's 1540–1542 expedition. García López de Cárdenas can be seen overlooking the Grand Canyon.
Episode from the Conquest of America by Jan Mostaert (c. 1545), probably Vázquez de Coronado in New Mexico